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[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Since its critical mass is 52kg, a 100kg of uranium-235 would make a mushroom cloud the moment you put it all in one bag.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

I like where your head is at, but that's not how criticality works.

It'd definitely be deadly, but wouldn't mushroom cloud.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

This. The Demon Core experiments did not cause full on explosions. Just massive lethal doses of radiation.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Good point. Just read more about it and it seems to require certain conditions to trigger a fission reaction the way I described it. E.g temperature, pressure, shape of the payload.

Still, while these variables are uncertain, I wouldn’t rule it out.